Adaptive Supersampling in Object Space Using Pyramidal Rays

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-54

  Genetti, Jon ^a   Gordon, Dan ^b   Williams, Glen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Antialiasing; Computer graphics; Distributed light sources; Fuzzy reflections; Object space; Penumbra; Picture image generation; Ray tracing; Stochastic sampling; Supersampling; Three dimensional graphics and realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343057144     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00214     Document Type: Article

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